Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the tricks are as old as magic itself. The quick-sprouting tree operates on a spring released off stage by a prop man. Other tricks depend on shrewd camera work, as when dancers' costumes change from black to white and, gradually, back to black again, simply by reversing the polarity (i.e., changing a positive picture to a negative picture) on the camera. The falling and rising water pail was more complicated. A tiny pail the size of a thimble was mounted on a transparent plastic disc which revolved in front of a revolving drum on which...
Last week, as they have for years, high-powered Hollywood lobbyists were subtly slipping their wares into the screen's magic showcase. With tireless insistency they pushed plugs for automobiles, refrigerators, railroads, soft drinks, rifles, liquor, diamonds, Venetian blinds, cigars...
...control. Even in his irresponsible heyday candid friends sometimes said of him that his brilliance was self-defeating; his verse was lucid in flashes but never memorable. Said one critic: "His words lie dead on the page." But in his latest book he shows signs of attaining that memorable magic that only the best poets have...
...latest M.G.M. musical extravaganza, "Royal Wedding," has the world's longest song title, a pleasant but undistinguished musical score, and Fred Astaire. Astaire alone makes the show worth seeing. At the age of 50 and after several "retirements," he has still enough dancing magic to make an ordinary musical sparkle, but this should come as no surprise. What is news is that Jane Powell, the current in a long list of Astaire dancing partners, sings and dances with enough youthful enthusiasm to rival the old master...
Iran's oil (6% of the world's production and Western Europe's biggest oil source) was threatened because of 1) British business greed in past decades; 2 British Socialist advertising of the magic word "nationalization" 3) failure of the U.S. to develop an effective policy in Iran; 4) complete lack of U.S.-British cooperation (TIME, Jan. 8). As usual, the Russians stand to gain from the West's failure: their puppet Tudeh party, officially outlawed, is very active behind the scenes in the drive for nationalization of Iran's oil. Thousands of people...